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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:36:05PM +0200, Mathieu L. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about where to install some binaries:
> Wmii now depends on some plan9 tools ported to Unix
> (http://wmi.modprobe.de/snaps/9rc-20050823.tar.gz)
>  and the thing is, most of them are casual binaries like tee, sort, sed
> etc... so of course we don't want to erase the regular ones with those.
> The default install path for them is /usr/local/9/ and I guess wmii
> checks for those in there when building/executing.
> The question is where do you think I should make the spell install
> those? And how to be sure that they won't interfere with the regular
> binaries in everyday's use?
 
/usr/local is definitely forbidden ground for spells. /opt/plan9 or
/opt/9 would work for me.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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